According to reports, following are the latest updates pertaining to the outcome of parliamentary election in Nepal, as of Saturday (07 March);

• Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah’s newly formed Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) was on Saturday (07 March) heading towards ‘victory’ in Nepal’s first general elections since the violent Gen Z protests.
• The Chief Election Commissioner has stated that the counting will be finished by Monday (09 March), and the Election Commission will release the results of the 165 elected seats by/before Sunday (08 March).
• According to the latest Election Commission data, the RSP has won 20 seats and is ahead in 98 others. The Nepali Congress has won four seats and is leading in 11 others, while the CPN-UML has won a seat and is leading in 11 constituencies. The Nepali Communist Party has bagged two seats and is leading in 10 constituencies.
• Preliminary data released by the Election Commission indicates that the RSP had secured 22,442 votes – about 56.83 percent – out of the 39,483 ballots counted so far.
• The Nepali Congress was a distant second with 7,505 votes, accounting for roughly 19 percent of the early count. The pro-monarchy Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) was in third place with 3,169 votes, followed closely by the CPN-UML with 2,990 votes.